"This is not a novel to be
tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

Dorothy Parker

Art

"Immature artists imitate,
mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Art

"Most business
plans fail. Obviously, a success it not a realistic goal. But the people responsible for
the most spectacular failures get promoted first because of their experience."

Scott Adams, The Dibert
Principle

Business

*

"Organized
crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on
office supplies."

Woody Allen

Business

*

"What is
qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a
mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm
not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.
And I think people get too hung up on that in a way, you know?"

Sonny Bono

Business

*

"Put all your
eggs in one basket, and then pay very close attention to that basket."

Warren Buffett

Business

*

"The public
does not know what it wants, and there is no sure way of finding out until the idea is
exposed under normal conditions of sale. If people could tell you in advance what they
want, there would never have been a wheel, a lever, much less an automobile, airplane, or
a TV set."

Leo Burnett

Business

*

"When we ask
advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

Marquis de la Grange

Business

"What has
happened in the valley is that companies are suddenly being cast, like movies, for their
hit potential."

Will Hearst, Publisher
& Venture Capitalist

Business

*

"I wish people
who have trouble communicating would just shut up."

Tom Lehrer

Business

"All great
stories have three acts. In the first act, the heroes are introduced to great fanfare. In
the second, the heroes, on the verge of victory, stumble and take a fall. And in the third
act, the heroes return, victorious, to win the battle."

Ted Leonsis

Business

"Nobody ever
went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

H.L. Mencken

Business

"Be nice to
people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down."

W. Migner

Business

"There is no
monument dedicated to the memory of the committee."

Lester J. Pourciau

Business

"Nothing can be
done at once hastily and prudently."

Publilus Syrus, Maxim
557

Business

*

"One word sums
up the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

Former Vice President
Dan Quayle

Business

*

"Advertising is
the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't
need."

Will Rodgers

Business

"Beware of all
enterprises that require new clothes."

Thoreau

Business

*

"Buy land.
They've stopped making it."

Mark Twain

Business

"The large
print giveth, and the small print taketh away"

Tom Waits

Business

"Football is a
mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee
meetings."

George Will

Business

*

"What does not destroy me,
makes me strong."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Change

"Keep changing. When you're
through changing - you're through."

Bruce Barton

Change

"A revolution is not a dinner
party."

Mao

Change

"For every door
that shuts, a window opens."

Anon

Change

"The study of
change is the study of survival."

Edward T. Hall

Change

"Before the
beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos."

"The I Ching"

Change

"Always do sober what you said
you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Ernest Hemingway

Character

"Speak the truth, but leave
immediately after."

Slovenian Proverb

Character

"Don't tell your problems to
people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have
them."

Lou Holtz

Character

"I don't want
any yes-man around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their
jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Character

*

"Tis better to
be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

Character

"Nearly all men
can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

Character

*

I think you're the
opposite of a paranoid. I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like
you.

Woody Allen,
Deconstructing Harry

Character

*

"Setting an example is not the
main means of influencing others, it is the only means."

Albert Einstein

Character

*

"The definition
of courage is grace under fire."

Ernest Hemingway

Character

*

"Just because
you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

Abbie Hoffman

Character

*

"Honesty is a
good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under
control."

Don Marquis

Character

"I think you're
the opposite of a paranoid. I think you go around with the insane delusion that people
like you."

Woody Allen

Character

"And always remember the last
words of my grandfather, who said, "A truck!"

Emo Phillips

Death

"Why are our
days numbered and no, say, lettered?"

Woody Allen

Death

"I don't want
to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying."

Woody Allen

Death

"Experience is
the comb that nature gives us when we are bald."

Anon

Experience

*

"An expert is a
person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

Niels Bohr

Experience

"Experience is
that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

F.P. Jones

Experience

"Time is the
best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students"

Experience

"Experience is
that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

F.P. Jones

Experience

*

"It is
advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a
shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground.
To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends."

Samuel Johnson

Fame

*

"I have found
the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise
them to do it."

Harry S. Truman

Family

*

"When I was a
boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven
years."

Mark Twain

Family

*

"Home is the
place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

"One of the
lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing
to say."

Will Durant

History

*

"A lie told
often enough becomes the truth."

Lenin

History

"If you ever see me getting
beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me."

Bobcat Goldthwait

Humor

"Now they show you how
detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a
T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you
should get rid of the body before you do the wash."

Jerry Seinfeld

Humor

"Brevity is the soul of
wit."

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Humor

"If only God
would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss
bank."

Woody Allen

Humor

"More than any
other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter
hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose
correctly."

Woody Allen

Humor

"In the valley
of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

Anon

Humor

"When someone
tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at
it anyway."

Clyde B. Aster

Humor

"These days
it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make."

Steve Martin

Humor

*

"Outside of a
dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Graucho Marx

Humor

*

"Whenever I'm
caught between two evils, I take the one I never tried."

Mae West

Humor

*

"Give me the strength to change
the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and great big bag of
money."

Deep Thoughts by Jack
Handey

Inspiration

*

"All you need
in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure."

Mark Twain

Inspiration

"I have a dream
that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational

*

"Your playing small does not
serve the world as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to so the same "

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational

*

"It is not the horse that draws
the cart, but the oats."

Russian Proverb

Leadership

"If it weren't
for the last minute, nothing would ever get done."

Anon

Leadership

"If you're
ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still
there."

from "Don't
Squat with Your Spurs On: A Cowboy's Guide to Life"

Leadership

*

"A decision
will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter."

Michael Eisner

Leadership

*

"If you don't
understand that you work for your mislabeled "subordinates", then you know
nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny."

Dee Hock in Fast
Company

Leadership

*

"When written
in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and
the other represents opportunity."

John F. Kennedy

Leadership

*

"You know how
I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do."

Louis B. Mayer

Leadership

*

"Where there is
not vision, the people perish."

Proverbs 29:18

Leadership

*

"Never tell
people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity."

George C. Scott, as
Gen. Geo. S. Patton, Jr. (from the movie, Patton)

Leadership

*

"The culture of
a company starts at the top. It reflects the style of the leader. You have to use
humility, create a motivating environment, mentor as well as manage."

Mike Seashols, who left
Oracle after 15 years to start his own company

Leadership

*

"All animals except man know
that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."

Samuel Butler

Life

"Even if you're on the right
track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

Life

"If you pick up
a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle
difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain

Life

"If you board
the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life

"When we ask
for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

Marquis de la Grange

Life

*

"The art of
being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

Wm. James

Life

*

"The reverse
side also has a reverse side."

Japanese proverb

Life

"Speed costs
money - how fast can you afford to go ?"

David Lenkowski

Life

"What's past is
prologue."

William Shakespeare

Life

*

"All the
world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their
entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

Shakespeare, As You
Like It, Act 2, Scene 7

Life

*

"I liked you 'cause I thought
you had some feeling, but when you didn't, I liked you even more."

Go West, Young Man

Love

*

"It's no trick
to make a lot of money if all you want to do is make a lot of money."

Everett Sloane, as Mr.
Bernstein, from Citizen Kane

Money

*

"Money is
better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Woody Allen

Money

"Someday I want
to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I
want to be."

Rita Rudner

Money

"Entire new
continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your
screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of
light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles."

Dave Barry, "Dave
Barry in Cyberspace"

New Media

"The world is
changing Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed I envision
a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the
overhead the established networks carry."

Barry Diller

New Media

"The largest
unanswered questions about this revolution are in and around a business mode. How
important are subsidies from advertising, as we've had in broadest media? How do you
attract enough subscribers? I don't think many web sites, many presences, many networks
are going to make it on advertising. I think transactions are key. Remember the advice
Deep Throat gave Woodward and Bernstien in "All the President's Men": follow the
money. The money is in transactions. the competion is just a mouse click away in
cyberspace, so it's hard to command a premium price. You get a premium for your brand and
service...

John Doerr

New Media

"Traditional
media companies underestimate how easy it is to build a brand in this world. I think the
new brands are gong to do at least as well as the existing brands

John Doerr

New Media

"There will be
a lot more winners than there will be losers, because the internet is a great cost reducer
in distribution and transactions. Bill Gates refers to it as a friction-free kind of
economy. I don't think it's a panacea. You have to be an exceptionally smart marketer to
succeed in this new world. Assemble together all of the notions that make marketing part
art, part science".

John Doerr

New Media

The lesson of the
past five years is: the more you give away the more you sell. You have to groom eyeballs
to your presence to bring them back in again and again. Cross-marketing is exceptionally
important. And you'd better have your marketing efforts led by some folks who are under
30, certainly; sort of Generation X, of this internet culture, who understand the
demographic of this group."

John Doerr

New Media

"The killer app
will not be a shrink-wrapped program that sells millions. The killer app will be a Web
site that touches millions of people and helps them to do what they want to do."

Lou Gerstner, Chairman,
IBM, in his keynote address at Internet World

New Media

*

"What's my ROI
on e-commerce? Are you crazy? This is Columbus in the New World. What was his ROI?"

Andy Grove

New Media

"Girls don't
think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid."

Intel CEO Andy Grove,
during his E3 keynote speech

New Media

"We could be
profitable today the trick is to be profitable on the right scale."

Brian Hecht

New Media

"It's not the
content. It's the people, stupid. Content may be why people visit a site. But community is
why they stay."

Tom Rielly, CEO of
"Planet Out"

New Media

*

"Trust in Allah, but tie your
camel."

Old Muslim Proverb

Philosophy

"Sacred cows
make the best hamburger."

Mark Twain

Philosophy

"I was thrown
out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy
sitting next to me."

Woody Allen

Philosophy

"God, grant me the
serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference."

Reinhold Niebuhr

Philosophy

The Six Stages of
Production 1. Wild Enthusiasm 2. Total Confusion 3. Utter Despair 4. The Search for the
Guilty 5. The persecution of the Innocent 6. The Promotion of the Incompetent

Anon

Showbiz

*

Reporter: In the
circus of life, we're the guys who clean up after the elephants. Agent: At least you're
not the one kissing its ass.

Industry Quote of the
Year, as reported by Anita Busch in Daily Variety 11/27/97

Showbiz

*

"Never trust a
man in a hurry."

show business aphorism

Showbiz

*

"Restore the
element of trust and respect to those who have earned it and whose passion should inspire
you. The most successful network will always be the one with the best collective creative
vision - not just that of the chief programmer."

Brandon Tartikoff

Showbiz

*

"Sometimes if
you're willing to give people of vision and passion the room to maneuver, you get
incredibly lucky. I know I did, Not because I believed in the shows, but because I
believed in the producers."

Brandon Tartikoff

Showbiz

*

"You don't cook
a frog by throwing it into boiling water -- it will jump right out You cook a frog by
throwing it into warm water and slowly turning up the heat."

Anon

Strategy

*

"The best victory
is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual
hostilities It is best to win without fighting."

Sun-tzu

Strategy

*

"Hey, I don't
have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I
love my wife. I love my life, and I wish you my kind of success."

"If the
automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would
today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone
inside."

Robert X. Cringely,
InfoWorld

Technology

"In the world
today, there's plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of
venture capital. What's in short supply is great teams. Your biggest challenge will be
building a great team. There's enormous change under way in every facet of the world. Some
is technology driven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedented
opportunity. But to take full advantage of those opportunities, focus on the team. Teams
win."

John Doerr in Fast
Company

Technology

*

"I believe that
the challenge we all face is not in learning how to use this technology, but learning to
use it in a positive way. I have recently begun producing a cartoon series for children
called Thor, God of Thunder which will premier next year "

Fabio

Technology

*

"I think their
should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what
it would be, but I think it would be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we
have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."

Deep Thoughts,
by Jack Handey

Technology

*

"I don't describe the future. I
try to prevent it."

Ray Bradbury

The Future

"The best way
to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

The Future

"Things are
happening that could affect the course of history, and I have to interfere before it's too
late."

John Corbett, as
"The Visitor"

The Future

"Some men get the
world, some get an ex hooker and a trip to Arizona."

Kim Bassinger, LA
Confidential

The Movies

"Cinema is life
with the dull bits cut out."

Alfred Hitchcock

The Movies

"All television
is children's television."

Richard P. Adler

TV

*

"The human race
is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Anon

TV

*

"If it weren't
for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio
dinners."

Johnny Carson

TV

*

"Television - a
medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done."

Ernie Kovacs

TV

*

"Television has
proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Ann Landers

TV

*

"It was never
a problem. The odds are ninety nine to one that these Christmas stories are gonna have a
happy ending."

"The Online
Adventures of Ozzie the Elf", teleplay by Jenny Tripp

TV

"Winning is not
a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you
dont' do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a
habit"

Vince Lombardi

Winning

"If winning
isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

Vince Lombardi

Winning

*

"The difference
between insanity and genius is success."

Jonathan Price,
Tomorrow Never Dies

Winning

"There are five
ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are
victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those who
upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious. Those who face the unprepared
with preparation are victorious. Those whose generals are able and not constrained by
their governments are victorious. These five are the ways to know who will win."

Sun-Tzu, The Art of
War

Winning

*

"When you have
good, workable ideas, and when you know what to do with them, you succeed."

Brandon Tartikoff

Winning

"If you don't
show up for work on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday."

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Work

"The world is
filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Robert Frost

Work

*

"Only in bed
you can be slow, everywhere else you work hard and fast."